TWO FINE EFFORTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 99, 24 October 1939, Page 11

TWO FINE EFFORTS

WIGGINS'S NEAR DOUBLE

The two open handicap 'events on yesterday's card saw the honours keenly contested, and once again it was one of the public's main choices who won the Pearce Handicap, with the winner of the sprint, the Nainai Handicap, harder to locate, though the field was comparatively small. Mittie ran right up to her first day's sprint performance by taking the Pearce Handicap, and Globe Trotter gave tangible evidence of his quality in the Nainai Handicap. ;It was very near a jockey's double, as H. N. Wiggins brought home Mittie and then just lost the sprint on Sleeveless in the last fifty yards, the rider who brought about the defeat of his mount being W. J. Mudford, who. had figured in exactly the same role when frustrating P. Atkins's bid for the open double on the middle day. Mudford was in excellent form throughout the meeting. Globe Trotter, by coincidence, was Wiggins's mount in the second day's sprint. MITTIE CONFIRMS FORM. That she has struck form again with a vengeance, Mittie demonstrated in the-Pearce Handicap. At other times in her career she has failed at a mile, but she ran out the distance solidly yesterday, though she was tiring at the post. She was cleverly handled by H. N. Wiggins, who had the choice of rides on her or Tooley Street and selected the mare. . ' Mittie was favoured with an excellent start, following The Bigot and Old Surrey when the line broke, and she was able to hold a splendid position all the way. She might have been sixth on reaching the straight, but she still had a great position and she raced through to take charge at the false rail. At the distance she was more than a length clear of her field, but she then had to be kept up to the bit to stall off challenges from Gay Chou and Homily by a n head and half a head respectively. Mittie disappointed her connections for over three months, and it now seems that she has at last come right when least expected, for, prior to the meeting, her owner-trainer, W. H. Hume, was doubtful about taking her to Trentham. Her efforts at the meeting were among her best yet. _ Gay Chou improved on his sprmt performance on the middle day to finish a close second He was always some- places behind Mittie in the running but came through very resolute y from the distance and was fast catching the winner at the post. Homily the winner of the race last year, also came home strongly, but out on the course. She had moved up fast on the turn to be near _the leaders the straight, and the extra ground she went over probably cost her the verdict. ~ . Wagner followed Gay Chou through to secure the barren honour. Capricious and the hot favourite Haughty Winner were both closing on the places at the post after having been well back till the straight, Haughty Winner not producing his customary burst of speea somewhere in his races till the contest was all but over. Old Surrey, who

took charge at the five furlongs, failed to stand up to the pressure. Trench Fight and Hinerawe both ran useful races, the former going his best for some time. Tooley Street was never dangerous, and The Bigot, Mishna,, and Boomerang, next after the leader to the straight, all tired. Dainty Sue was a brief prospect when she ran up into an opening below the false rail. GLOBE TROTTER BRILLIANT. Despite the set against the favourites in open sprints at Trentham, the public rushed in on Sleeveless in the Nainai Handicap, and once again they, lost their straight-out investments. In a very large pool Sleeveless was entrusted with £2288 on the win machine alone, more than was placed on Beaulivre in the Harcourt Stakes, and nearly twice the support given Disdain. Sleeveless was very vigorously ridden by Wiggins, who drove her through along the inner to take charge i at the false rail, but though she did not flinch from the task she was wholly nonplussed by Globe Trotter's brilliant challenge over the last furlong.. As she had some class sprinters behind her, however, she was far from disgraced in her first race among open company. Globe Trotter's late run was a repetition of that which he put in to gain fourth place on the middle day, but he was never quite so far astern, though again at the rear. He began to move up crossing the course and over the last furlong he simply flew. This was the real Globe Trotter^ a three-year-old who may join the best class of sprinters before long. A fuubrother to the Wellesley Stakes winner Enrich, he is owned in partnership by Messrs. M. D. Bonthorne, G. A. Long, and A. Pope, of Wellington, who paid 780 guineas for him at the sale of the late Mr. W. Higgins's horses in July. He remains in the C.J.C. Stewards Handicap field, and is the sort oi sprinter for such a race. Taurangi, having her first start tnis season, came up at the end to cut Disdain out of the other dividend on the post. Disdain, who followed Density •and Brunhild to the straight, had every chance. Toro-Koura . again ran disappointingly, but on this occasion he beat-Density and Brunhild, as well as Sporting Gift, home. ■ _, „...The winner was ridden by W..J. MudfGTd,- -who also secured the sprint 'hbnmu».^b"Blonde,; Princess on j the second day of the-meeting.ywlien Wig : gins had the mount on Globe Trotter. Globe Trotter and Sleeveless, were the two three-year-olds-in the field.